Quotes from Paul Rudd

I try not to think of myself in any category, and I don't ever really try to imagine myself competing with another actor. I just know I want to do the things that I would want to see, and I know the things that turn me on, whether it's on the stage, or it's a play or a film. I just kind of want to keep doing my own thing.

I grew up in a lot of different places, mostly in Kansas, I really started thinking seriously about acting in high school; I just did it better than most of the other activities in school.

People have all different kinds of marriages. Whatever works for you.

Anybody that's going on a road trip and doesn't really want to get into a myriad of snacks is probably no one you want to get in the car with.

People do still mention 'Clueless' to me. I'm proud and happy that I was in it.

When I was in my early twenties, I used to grow all sorts of very weird beards. All of them awful in retrospect. I had Civil War beards for a while, then Mennonite beards.

I was never much into knights and sorcery and that kind of thing. It's not because I was into anything cooler. I certainly wasn't. I played with LEGOs. I played with LEGOs way past when most people played with LEGOs.

You can make a lot of mistakes with hair because it grows back.

My bar mitzvah, I went to my nan's, and she made kugel.

I've been naked in a lot of my movies. There's something inherently funny about the naked male body, particularly mine.

I do like the idea that tomorrow I might find out that I'm going to be doing something that is completely unknowable today. I think it forces you to live in the moment in a very good way.

There's a very specific thing you can do to get in magazines. I'm much happier to just show up and do the job. I haven't taken the active approach to making myself a star. I haven't been in a blockbuster.

For a while, I tried to masquerade as somewhat of a hippie because I was under the impression that was the kind of guy girls would like. I was pretty unsuccessful because I liked the idea of camping more than actually camping. I did go to a Grateful Dead concert, but I was pretty bored.

I love straight guys that seem gay. I'm a little like that.

My definitions of comedy, drama, and straight man are all blurry for me. I don't think of it in those terms.

I used to love, love Steve Martin. I still do... I would get these albums, and I would just listen to them all the time. I would stand in my room and pretend that I was delivering his comedy routine... And I don't know if that planted any kind of seed, but I wasn't raised going to the theatre.

I grew up in the Midwest, where people seem to be friendly and nice to one another. There is less stress than in some of the other cities.

I always try and hold to that saying, 'I want to work on things I'd want to see.' The vast majority, that's been true.

I went to college and studied theater; I went to a theater conservatory. I live in New York because I wanted to do plays and still do plays.

Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.

I really tried for a while to go with the Adam Ant look.

I am so appreciative I have been able to continue not only doing something I love, but working on movies I've loved.

I have trouble with long-term things. I tend to get obsessed with stuff and then move on. Roles, songs, video games. That's why I was afraid of marriage. Because it was like a lifelong game of 'Madden.'

There is a major part of who I am that does not feel like the alpha male.